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. >> general david petraeus was fighting the iraqi insurgency. >> i said that your policies are killing our troops, and you are casting them out of the one institution that was respected in iraqk and now they have no future. >> many critics have pointed to brem bremer's two orders as the reason for the iraqi insurgency. some say, they even led to isis. >> many of the people who are today with the islamic state on the military side are people are from that army. >> who approved the order? for years members of the bush administration have pointed fingers at each other. but for the first time paul b m bremer gave me a clear answer to the question. white house officials have variously pinned the blame on you. >> not the president. >> not the president. >> no, the president hasn't. >> yeah, well, he approved them. >> he approved them? >> yes. >> and george bush has never take even clear responsibility, but bremer says that the idea to fire baath party members came from this man, doug fit, a key aide to the president. >> doug fit showed me the draft, and say we are going to do this. >> paul b

david petraeus was another shakespearean character. talk about a fall from grace.harlie: sure. >> it is a remarkable cast of characters. some of the most interesting characters in the film where the operatives and analysts. gina bennett, probably one of the women who inspired the jessica chastain character in "zero dark 30." fascinating. , he's a character right out of the maltese falcon. he is a straight shooter. he helped the french corral carlos the jackal. he later became head of the counterterrorism center. he was one of those who warned that al qaeda was coming prior to 9/11. charlie: what did he say? picture thatlling he paints, and george tenet -- paints come in the months preceding now 11. -- preceding 9/11. >> the information that we have now compiled was compelling. it was multiple sourced. it was the last stroke. straw. we had top the phone, go see the director now. george tenet is a very smart guy. he is chewing on his cigar. he is going back and forth and his eyes are flashing. >> it isn't just red lights. these are real plots being manifested. >> the

to michelle's point about refugees there was an open letter from henry kissinger, david petraeus who said don't block this program. it is not a risk. we support it. >> michelle, go ahead. >> okay. they may know what they are talking about. we can all agree the vetting process isn't perfect. >> it is perfect. >> tell me what isn't perfect? your next door neighbor is doing something. [ speaking at the same time ] >> john. >> i have said homeland security isn't going to keep us safe. that can only be had through military war. this is the issue. >> you're saying there are flaws in the system. coming up, meet the come willing to take a bullet as comes around the country bite the bullet. a true american hero next. >>> with all the cop bashing in america now -- chicago, ferguson, et cetera. i want you to listen to what this come told people while helping them escape. >> try to relax, everyone. i will take a bullet before you do. that's for damn sure. just be cool. >> isn't this an accurate description of 99.9% of cops in america. >> they are selfless, there to protect us. this is often lost

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to michelle's point about refugees there was an open letter from henry kissinger, david petraeus who said don't block this program. it is not a risk. we support it. >> michelle, go ahead. >> okay. they may know what they are talking about. we can all agree the vetting process isn't perfect. >> it is perfect. >> tell me what isn't perfect? your next door neighbor is doing something. [ speaking at the same time ] >> john. >> i have said homeland security isn't going to keep us safe. that can only be had through military war. this is the issue. >> you're saying there are flaws in the system. coming up, meet the come willing to take a bullet as comes around the country bite the bullet. a true american hero next. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like ordering wine equals pretending to know wine. pinot noir, which means peanut of the night. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like playing the boss equals the boss wins. wow! on their auto insurance. wouldn't a deal involve two parties discussing something? a little give? a littl

so i kept in touch, and six months later david petraeus was sent to iraq to try and patch things up.and i said when do you want me to come, much to my wife's dismay. and he said i'll let you know. i first went in june of 2007 to iraq. i embedded there. i went on patrol there. and i got caught up in it. and as wendy said, i did most of my embedding in afghanistan. and most of my embedding in afghanistan in one town which is just west of kandahar at a crucial chokepoint in taliban central. two towns over from mullah omar's hometown. and i first embedded with the fourth infantry acquisition -- division and a captain who was essentially the mayor of the town. his job was not only to protect them, but also he had public works money. he had cert funds. and so for the first time in human history, the afghan residents were asked how would -- what would you like us to build? what would you like us to do with this money in and the overwhelming response was they wanted, they wanted us to reopen a school that the canadians had built and that the taliban had closed and booby trapped. and the over

former secretary of state madeleine albright, henry kissinger, and george shultz, plus general david petraeusnd 16 other military leaders and security experts. in a letter to congress they stated, in part, refugees are victims, not perpetrators of terrorism. categorically refusing to take them only feeds the narrative of isis that there is a war between islam and the west. >>> and check out the shocking dash cam video showing a deer, you hear it, crashing into a cop car in kentucky. the deer slams into the cruiser, twirls in the air, just missing the windshield. miraculously, it gets up and runs off. >>> donald trump in the crosshairs of spike lee and "the washington post." striking accusations up next. bu. i'm on the move all day long... and sometimes, i just don't eat the way i should. so i drink boost to get the nutrition that i'm missing. boost complete nutritional drink has 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d to support strong bones and 10 grams of protein to help maintain muscle. all with a great taste. i don't plan on slowing down any time soon. stay str

i guess i'm interested when richard lugar was in a senior position i remembered him asking david petraeus once about something going on in afghanistan and david was then commanding isaf. petraeus waited and said they couldn't answer that question a broader strategy because my world is just afghanistan. i thought it was very important exchange which i don't reflect back on and i'm wondering with your committee members they think about this. is there a strategic frame that we are all missing that somehow your committee members have. >> i think it's great. i think it's a great question and a great point. i think with all the multiple issues that are being dealt with and not one insurmountable issue, they are all complex. you are right the strategic focus was not trying to get out of any blame relative to this but i think we have this fight polar world where it's the cold war and everybody understands. i think it's so much easier to develop a strategic framework created to think in fairness to the administration and i hate to keep being so fairness meeting. [laughter] i think part of some of

we've had doctrinal invocation with people like david petraeus talking about long wars. that's become u.s. military doctrine. here we are 14 years later and we haven't won a damn thing. general, that's crazy. >> well, let's face it. nothing's going to happen for another 13 months, that's for sure. >> you know, i don't know. i hope the islamic state agrees with you. i hope vladmir putin agrees with you. but, you know, nothing's -- >> our side, lou, nothing's going to happen on our side. >> we'll have to do something if one of those fine gentlemen decide to do something and see our pentagon on a posture that we've got 13 months to run out here. we don't. we better be ready for it. >> i think the bottom line is very clear. the one thing you can't get back in war is time. money won't pay for time. and because we have this so-called strategic pause in place, it's allowing the taliban and isis to continue to entrench themselves. it makes plan b which will kick in 2016 far more difficult to execute. >> plan b, whatever it is. i hope that we elect somebody, somebody that knows w

she wanted to arm the rebels three years ago when david petraeus and everyone in obama's cabinet should do, he said no. charles: but the rebels were eventually armed. >> she armed isis. >> it's hard to run on something you didn't accomplish. it's one of those positive negatives. you can't run on something because you wanted to do it but you didn't do it. that doesn't work. >> she tried to do it. >> show me the result. i'm not interested in trying. >> in today's "london review," they did arm isis. >> you are going to quote him who said there was never a raid to kill usama bin laden. he's a pulitzer prize winner, where's yours? >> i have one. charles: yesterday a suicide bomber killed six american troops. president obama was informed of the attack, then he did what he has done way too often. he headed to the golf course. his press secretary released a statement expressing their condolences. it's not just when the troops die. i remember on the eve of the ferguson announcement he gave some sort of a press conference from the decks of his office. he's never there at these moment when america

. >> carly fiorina saying general david petraeus was retired early for telling president obama thingse didn't want to hear. general petraeus actually left the army to become head of the cia under president obama and then he left that job because he had an extra marital affair and gave classified information to his mistress for which he was found guilty of a crime. maybe she meant a different general petraeus. >> and for general mcchrystal, he left after an unflattering article was written about him. i'm quite sure she knew who she was talking about when she mentioned general jack keane. i nope that's who she was talking about because he's on fox news all the time. i know that's who she was thinking of. he, too, she said was retired early after giving president obama advice that the president didn't want to hear. let's let fox take it from here. this is freaking amazing. >> one of the things i would immediately do in addition to defeating them here at home is bring back the warrior class, petraeus, mcchrystal, mattis, keane, flynn. every one of these generals i know, every one was reti

. >> look at david petraeus. >> that was a weird scene. >> tell that to the former governor of new york eliot spitzer. >> question knew about hillary's e-mail. >> i am saying they were caught up in 2001 al qaeda for killing us and their privacy is being violated. >> it seems to me you are more upset about having your e-mail red and we are talking about banning muslims from the country. >> i am an american. >> i am an merp, too. >> let me ask you this quick. are there burglaries in your neighbor s neighborhood? >> yes. >> they are shooting people. >> we have refugees living in my apartmentive my gun up and privacy away. >> why are guns part of this conversation? >> it's the same thing. >> why is everyone concerned about the one terrorist not the one guy who did a background check and got his weapons? >> don't even know what you are talking about. i don't think disarming me -- >> i think from counter-terrorism perspective the council (indiscernible). two things a terrorist will do. they will use encrypted apps based in companies out of germany we just discussed and they have no jurisdicti

>> david petraeus, okay? >> that was a weird scene. >> really? why don't you tell that to denny hastert? why don't you tell that to el yort spitzer? >> we knew about eliot. >> i'm merely saying they were caught up in 2001 era terror laws meant to prevent al qaeda from killing us, and their privacy ended up being violated and those guys are crucified. >> it's different than having your e-mail read than banning muslims from the country. >> i'm an american, they're not. >> i'm an american, too. it's so cracked. >> let me say, if there's burglaries in your neighborhood, is your response to lock your doors or go out and start shooting people -- >> why should -- >> why should i give my privacy away to protect this country? >> why is everyone concerned about the one terrorist and not the one guy who didn't have a background check? and got his weapon? >> i don't even know what you're talking about. i don't think disarming me or taking my privacy away. >> no one's disarming you. >> this is interesting. from my perspective, neither banning muslims or forci

that happens and we can begin the possibility, this is a long shot, to rekindle the alliance david petraeus had managed during the surge which destroyed al qaeda in iraq and which helps us stabilize iraq which is to bring the sunnies into reconciliation and into the central government. so, this is a test not only will isis lose but it's a test whether the iraqi government, which is under the thumb of the iranians abandoned by obama in 2000 is 1 -- 2011 will allows the sunnies to retake ramadi and keep it. that, i think, is the most important issue on the table, and we don't know the answer yet. >> a.b., you were asking groups that have some things in common but a lot of things that they do fight about to come together, to make this win. and as charles said is, there are so many different complications with this. >> that's why it's so complicated. when they say they are going to clear it in 72 hours, we can be hopeful when it was just in may when general dempsey said we are not driven out of ramadi. they drove away. for them to try to come back and they have made progress, it is serious, sub

>> david petraeus, okay? >> that was a weird scene. >> really?'t you tell that to denny hastert? why don't you tell that to el yort spitzer? >> we knew about eliot. >> i'm merely saying they were caught up in 2001 era terror laws meant to prevent al qaeda from killing us, and their privacy ended up being violated and those guys are crucified. >> it's different than having your e-mail read than banning muslims from the country. >> i'm an american, they're not. >> i'm an american, too. it's so cracked. >> let me say, if there's burglaries in your neighborhood, is your response to lock your doors or go out and start shooting people -- >> why should -- >> why should i give my privacy away to protect this country? >> why is everyone concerned about the one terrorist and not the one guy who didn't have a background check? and got his weapon? >> i don't even know what you're talking about. i don't think disarming me or taking my privacy away. >> no one's disarming you. >> this is interesting. from my perspective, neither banning muslims or forcing faceb

david petraeus, meanwhile, then the director of the cia, was forced to resign after it was discovered leaked classified information to his biographer, with whom he was having an affair. as for retired general jack keane, another general mentioned by fiorina, this was his response. >> no, i've never spoken to the president. that's not accurate. and i never served this administration. i served the previous administration. >> keane retired from the military in the year 2003, nearly six years before president obama took office. but even after being presented with that information, which is to say the truth, fiorina insisted "no, i didn't misspeak. he has been someone of great experience who has been highly critical of the way this administration has not taken threats seriously and unfortunately he hasn't been listened to and i would listen to him." this is not the first time carly fiorina has refused to let the facts stand in her way. there was of course her false account of the planned parenthood sting videos. >> watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kickin

and retired army colonel peter mansoor, a top aide to general david petraeus during the u.s.ge in iraq. ayman oghanna, since you have been with the troops most recently, tell us what kind of progress is being made and how you measure that progress. >> well, before this trip in ramadi in may has been taken, it's night and day in terms of spirit in morale amongst the men. they are moving forward and feel confident they should have full control of the city soon. >> ifill: they're doing that how, exactly? >> basically, the u.s., according to the men on the ground, they said it's a matter of increase in the u.s.-led coalition's use of air support and airstrikes. there is a dramatic increase since russia in syria. they said before we had a problem getting hit which coalition aircraft and now the coordinates they're giving, they get hit. the the targets get hit and the special forces move forward and take the ground. >> ifill: peter mansoor, how important and critical is it for the iraqi government or iraqi effort to regain ramadi? what is it about ramadi that makes that important?

but david petraeus and others have been celebrated as having written the book, when in fact, lot ofve gone back to a the old failed policies without anyone seeming to notice. so these are two other examples of these pragmatic realist traditions. the limit give one further example of it now, who i think is not a consistent pragmatic but is by any means, not consistent by any means, is barack obama. --re's a moment in a mama's in obama's second administration, when he is being importuned by clinton, samantha others on theice, need to arm the moderates in syria. arming the moderates. and what obama does, to his everlasting credit, is to ask for examples of instances when the u.s. had backed insurgency that could be considered a success. doubt, he had the recently catastrophic invasion of libya in mind, and the toppling of omar gaddafi, which left the entire region and even greater chaos that started in. so we asked secretary clinton this question. this is his first administration. towards the end of his first administration. and she could not provide one single instance. she could not pr

this is the same team that took down general david petraeus for far less than the evidence they haved something at home, right? >> he had a loose leaf with classified documents in it. i slipped and said classified. he had them in an unlocked drawer in his house that was guarded 24-7. because it was in an unlocked desk drawer and friend was in the house who did not share the high level of security clearance he had, he was prosecuted and pleaded guilty. neil: that could be a double standard. >> one issue. not 999 different e-mails. neil, when the data is from an american satellite, it is automatically top secret, even if it were a data of you brushing your hair, because it's taken from an american satellite it's top secret because it can tell that the satellite was there and where it was. she was instructed of that on the second day she was in office as secretary of state, and she acknowledged them writing her understanding of that instruction, and that acknowledgment was signed by two fbi agents. neil: wow. that would be a secret about my brushing my hair. there is a certain thing i d

mcfarland, one of the greatest generals that i have met -- he is up there in the category of david petraeus -- is leading the fight against isil, and he reacted by saying very interesting comment. he said this is a very complex environment. it is kind of hard to inflict support on somebody. it's kind of hard to inflict support on somebody. what general mcfarland is saying is that because of the iranian dominant influence, because of that, the iranians -- the iraqis, a body, are reluctant to accept the help they node to retake the second largest city in iraq. the second largest city, mosul, in iraq is under isis control, and he knows full well that apache helicopters and special operations forces could have them do that. but who's telling him not to? the iranians. when i was there and met with -- we met with the prime minister of iraq, mr. abadi, he said to us, he said if you americans come and you lose one pilot or one plane, you will leave. that was the prime minister of iraq's opinion and one of the reasons, along with the iranian influence, is because there is no trust to the united stat

infantry officer including two tours as a platoon commander and two tours as a special assistant to david petraeus. he's been a great champion of service particularly for the younger generations of those on the hill. i turn it over to kevin and i look forward to hearing the discussion. thank you. >> good morning, everybody. thank you for coming out on the monday after thanksgiving, a rainy, cold washington monday. i'm sure you're all recovered from your tryptophan comas of thanksgiving weekend. i hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend. what a great way to start it off with a program about service. i think, you know, when the holidays come we hear about that in the news and we see all these images of people volunteering and the president around the country for thanksgiving. as tara and walter said, they approached me and defense one where i'm the executive editor with an idea -- with this idea of putting together an event of some time about national service. and i'll quickly say why it spoke to me right away because we were speaking backstage about, you know, this idea of national service com

a letter was signed by 20 signatories, including henry as i sayinger, madeleine albright, david petraeus worried we are shutting the door not only on syrian refugees but on iraqis who helped forces during the iraq war. some of those translators have been waiting for years to get a visa to this country. should they expect even further delays now? >> i think we and you got to be real careful as we look at the refugee resettlement program. it is an important program. it's one that we need to continue. the united states welcomes in out of u.n. referrals the majority of u.n. referrals under the refugee program. again, there's a high level of scrutiny done on this, but we need to be careful moving forward that we don't overreact. we do understand the concerns about security and we're going to take those seriously, but we've got to keep the program in place. ultimately, though and i think this is a thing many are forgetting, the real answer is resolving the civil war in syria, so that they can go back home and they have a home, a safe and prosperous home for themselves, a whole and unified plur

i guess i'm interested in luger, richard lugar was in your position i remember him asking david petraeus once about something going on in afghanistan. .nd david was then commanding he said i can't answer that question on broader strategy because my world is just afghanistan. somebody else -- i thought it was a very important exchange. don't reflect back on -- i'm wondering with your committee members and how you think about this, is there a strategic frame that we are all missing that somehow your committee members have? senator corker: after, i think it's a great question. a great point. with all the hink multiple issues that are being dealt with, not one insurmountable issue, they are all complex, i think that you're right. i think that strategy -- strategic focus was not trying to get out of any blame that may exist in my chair relative to this, but i think when you have this bipolar world where it's the cold war and everybody understands, it's so much easier to develop a strategic framework. do think in fairness to the administration, i hate to keep ing so fair in this meeting, but i

such an important voice here in the wake of the debate, former intelligence adviser to general david petraeuscutive director who opposes the nuclear deal with iran. thank you for joining me. >> thank you. >> when you hear things about carpet-bombing and taking out families from cruz and trump and even some others, do those constitute war crimes, first and foremost? >> indiscriminately targeting civilians? yes. carpet-bombing analogy was poorly used. the last time the u.s. carpet-bombed was in torah borah going after osama bin laden. >> what is carpet-bombing? >> several aircrafts dropping numerous bombs to basically do aerial denial, take out a mountain, a hill. when he talks about carpet bombing he's really talking about bombing formations of ice ice. but those days are gone. isis has melted back into the population. so the u.s. does not indiscriminately target sunnis, but russia, iran and assad do with barrel bombs and other weapons. so when people complain about 70% of the munitions not being dropped in the bombing raids that the u.s. does, it's because we don't have precise intelligence o

>> all the generals we respect, jack king, general david petraeus, general matters, all of them say youat this enemy, isis, accepted by having boots on the ground. does that have to be all american boots? of course not but there has to be american leadership in this. we have 3500 iraq already, people are talking about 10,000, but that has to be part of a much larger contingent. it has to also include regional states, arabs as well as local sunni allies which is why rather isn't sitting in paris talking about climate change for several days you wish the president was also mobilizing some kind of international conference and coalition both states in the region and europe and asia who are going to come in and help us eradicate this threat of isis before it strikes us again including in the homeland. >> in this presidency that is not going to happen, we won't get. on the ground, where does that leave the next president? how do you assess the choices the next president has to make? >> only thing i can tell you is there will be worse points of decision that we face right now. that has been th

central command under generals martin dempsey and david to train us -- petraeus.e is now associate professor of law at southwestern law school. welcome to democracy now! >> thank you, it is great to be here. i would like to say thank you to the brave young men and women who are currently serving in uniform far from home during these holidays. thank you. amy: professor, why don't you lay out for us this contrast between these two cases. one that is extremely well-known , bowe bergdahl, and another that many say has been covered up, the case of the navy seals in the death of an afghan detainee, not to mention the torture of others. >> amy, thank you. i think you laid out the facts while at the beginning of the segment. the concern with sergeant bergdahl's case, it is irrevocably tainted by the improper and i think illegal congressional statement, congressional pressure put on the military and the military's top leaders regarding this position in a current pending military case. when you have the chairman of the senate armed services committee john mccain threatening

about the debate -- carly fiorina is a sworn enemy of facts to say that david trias -- that they did the trias -- and jackd petraeusne resigned because they disagreed with barack obama it's as big a whopper as donald trump has ever told. john: al hunt, god it's great to have you on the show. it makes me so happy. stephanie ruhle will join us live in the studio to talk about the fed decision in just one moment. ♪ john: janet yellen announced the main interest rate will be raised by .25%. this is historic because it is the first time the fed has raised rates in 10 years. it seems like the fed feels the country is finally seeing recovery after the 2008 financial crisis. with us now to talk about what all of those words mean, host of "bloomberg ," stephanie ruhle. hi stephanie. stephanie: janet yellen nailed it today. she nailed it because the last thing we need is more uncertainty and volatility. the street liked it. it was steady as she goes. why do we like that? the election is coming. 1.375% is where it should be by the end of 2016. the number is still very low. john: yeah. stephanie: what does this mean for th

prominent in republican circles, such as former secretary of state henry kissinger, retired general david petraeus, former homeland security secretary michael chertoff urged us to stop the house bill. quote -- "refugees are victims, not perpetrators of terrorism." close cloture vote. quote "category refusing to take them only feeds the narrative of the islamic state that there is a war between islam and the west, that muslims are not welcome in the united states and europe and that the islamic state caliphate is their true home." perhaps the saucer is cooling the tea. and perhaps the senate will have the good sense not to follow the action of the house of representatives in passing this provision. i want to add two other articles before i yield the floor to my colleagues who've gathered here today. the first comes out of the city of chicago, which i'm honored to represent, a house in westridge, chicago, is a place where -- an order of newnes nuns that have e they've turned into a place of refuge for people. they've announced that they will accept syrian refugees into this home so they know they'll